The need for enterprises to move faster is driving trends like IT-as-a-Service and the growth of data analytics, which in turn are driving the adoption of flash storage. In addition to speed and predictable service levels, organizations adopting flash are also reducing storage footprint by up to 85 percent as they move away from spinning disks in favor of this higher density media.1 In fact, IDC reported that the impact flash-based arrays will have on the data center is undeniable as more flash platforms deliver enterprise-class data services, including snapshots, clones, encryption, replication, and quality of service.2 HPE 3PAR StoreServ delivers all of these data services and has a recently updated flash portfolio that provides industry leading scale,3 record-setting performance,4 and affordability starting at $19K.5 Today’s announcements help legacy storage users migrate more quickly to flash while reducing risk.

“Faced with the need for agility, organizations want to take advantage of game-changers like flash without introducing risk,” said Manish Goel, senior vice president and general manager for storage, HPE. “To meet those demands, Hewlett Packard Enterprise simplifies storage with a single flash-optimized 3PAR StoreServ line from the entry to enterprise with tier-1 resiliency and built-in data protection.”

Accelerating the move to the all-flash data center

3PAR StoreServ Storage enables organizations to accelerate the transformation to the all-flash data center with solutions that accommodate new and mixed media types in the same array while maintaining performance and enterprise-class resiliency. Earlier this month, the Storage Performance Council published a new world record SPC-2 result for the 3PAR StoreServ 20850 all-flash array that demonstrates better performance at half the price of the EMC VMAX 400K.6

Building on this success, HPE is introducing new 3PAR StoreServ products, solutions, and services:

3PAR Flash Acceleration for Oracle – An HPE validated solution that boosts database performance up to 75 percent 7 while enabling legacy systems like EMC VMAX to remain in place. These flash arrays can be placed for half the cost8 versus upgrading the legacy storage systems

Unlike pure flash systems designed for single media types or single SAN protocols, StoreServ Storage features a flash-optimized design that supports both file and block storage as well as a secondary tier of HDDs. Leveraging this architecture, HPE also introduced today the 3PAR StoreServ 8200 Converged File and Block Starter Kit, which enables consolidation onto a single unified system that costs 26 percent less than competitors.9 To help customers deploy these unified systems with more confidence, HPE also released several reference architectures for 3PAR StoreServ Storage, addressing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and SharePoint environments as well as HPE Software solutions for information management.

In addition, HPE is also offering a completely refreshed portfolio of StoreEver LTO-7 media, drives and automated libraries. This refreshed product lineup delivers even more low-cost and reliable long-term data retention solutions to customers, providing 2x the capacity at nearly double the performance of previous generations of LTO technology10 plus a 100x improvement in reliability.11 Pairing high-performance 3PAR StoreServ flash arrays with these new StoreEver Tape offerings gives customers the ability to deploy a “tape as NAS” solution to simply and seamlessly access bulk archives on tape as if they were on disk, ideal for enabling active archive.

Reducing risk with flash- and app-integrated data protection

HPE also announced new solutions to help customers as they move away from traditional backup silos in favor of flash array- and application- integrated data protection, including an entirely new lineup of entry and mid-range HPE StoreOnce Systems. With up to 2.7 times more performance12 and up to twice the density of the competition,13 these new StoreOnce models are priced at under $0.05 per usable gigabyte (GB) of logical capacity14 and support native integration with Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Veeam, and Veritas applications to improve performance, reduce network bandwidth, and eliminate dedicated backup management.

StoreEver LTO-7 tape media, tape drives, and tape automation products are available worldwide on December 1, 2015, with a US street price starting at $4,831 for an internal tape drive.

The HPE StoreOnce 3100 with 8TB of raw backup capacity is available worldwide on December 14, 2015, with a US street price starting at $5,931.25.

The StoreOnce 3520 starts at 12TB raw with a US street price starting at $8,128.55.

The StoreOnce 3540 starts with 24TB raw with a US street price starting at $10,950.

The StoreOnce 5100 starts with 48TB raw with a US street price starting at $25,056.

Version 2.0 of StoreOnce RMC software, which allows native data movement from 3PAR to StoreOnce backup for data protection, is available worldwide on January 15, 2016, with a US street price starting from $540.

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